Philosophy / Unit 4 Philosophy 0165 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Responsibility Requires Control
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The idea
Moral responsibility presupposes control: praise and blame make sense only for what was, in the relevant sense, up to the agent.
In practice
No one blames you for the weather—or for a sneeze. The free will debate decides where choices fall.
Where people slip
Every position ahead keeps this principle and argues over what satisfies it.
Your place on the trail
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